Hudson Gurney

Hudson Gurney (19 January 1775 – 9 November 1864) was an English antiquary and verse-writer, also known as a politician.

[2] Hudson was born at what is now known as Keswick Old Hall, the original residence of the Norwich Gurney family.

In early life he travelled on the continent with his friend George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen.

He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society (elected 15 January 1818), a member of the British Archæological Association from 1843, vice-president of the Norfolk and Norwich Archæological Society and a supporter of the Norwich Museum and Literary Institute.

Gurney lived at Keswick Old Hall and in St. James's Square, London, where he saw much society till the last twenty years of his life, when he suffered from ill-health.

On 9 November 1864 he died at Keswick Hall, and was buried in Intwood churchyard, near Norwich.

He also published Heads of Ancient History, (1814); Memoir of Thomas Young, M.D., (1831) Letter to Dawson Turner on Norwich and the Venta Icenorum (Norwich, 1847); and "Orlando Furioso" (1843), a verse translation, written in 1808, of parts of the poem.

[1] Between 1822 and 1830 he had presented to the British Museum Henry Jermyn's manuscript collections for the history of Suffolk; the seal of Ethelwald, bishop of Dunwich; and Roman tesselated pavements from Carthage.